London’s Foodie Paradise
Last July, my boyfriend and I, when we were visiting London, bought tickets to the ‘Taste of London’, it’s a temporary foodie heavenly event held in Regent’s Park; if featured some of the best London restaurants, selling miniature portions of their signature dishes. We couldn’t wait to go, but the ‘Face of Ascot’ competition forced us to change our plans, so instead of heading to Regent’s Park from our London hotel to eat food and drink bubbly, we headed to the Royal Ascot, thankfully it was worth the trip.
Even though the Royal Ascot was worth the trip, that didn’t stop us from salivating about the ‘Taste of London’. Fortunately, we managed to exchange our tickets to Sunday! So, the next day, we headed to the park around noon and met up with a couple we had made friends with during our trip. We surveyed the scene, which turned out to be huge. The white tents, which were stretched out endlessly, emanated amazing smells for hot chocolate, to grilled meat, to roasted vegetables. There was bottomless champagne, cheese plates, Pimm’s and Lemonade, canapes, and too many wine tasting stalls.
We sat down on this very cushy sofa so we could take a respite and enjoy the perks of spending half our vacation money on this affair. Refreshed and ready for more food, we went back into the midst of excellent food. We tasted sea trout with cucumber and braised wild rabbit with bacon and fennel. We then sampled some broad-bean soup and chilled pea with prosciutto wrapped bread-sticks. At the next stall, we were served honey-drizzled courgette flowers loaded with Chevre. Our taste-buds have never been treated to such fantastic delights! Then right next to that stall, we were served French fries with some fantastic salt that they called ‘crazy salt’, we went crazy over the salt.
We left the ‘Taste of London’ five hours later. There were many restaurant booths that we just hadn’t had the chance to visit. Our taste-buds were so over stimulated and wanting more, but our stomachs were telling us to not even try one more bite. We decided that next year, we’ll have to attend both days!